Fiction · 1812
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales, first published in 1812, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- The Golden Bird
- Hans in Luck
- Jorinda and Jorindel
- The Travelling Musicians
- Old Sultan
- The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
- Briar Rose
- The Dog and the Sparrow
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- The Fisherman and His Wife
- The Willow-Wren and the Bear
- The Frog-Prince
- Cat and Mouse in Partnership
- The Goose-Girl
- The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet
- Rapunzel
- Fundevogel
- The Valiant Little Tailor
- Hansel and Gretel
- The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
- Mother Holle
- Little Red-Cap (Little Red Riding Hood)
- The Robber Bridegroom
- Tom Thumb
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Clever Gretel
- The Old Man and His Grandson
- The Little Peasant
- Frederick and Catherine
- Sweetheart Roland
- Snowdrop
- The Pink
- Clever Elsie
- The Miser in the Bush
- Ashputtel
- The White Snake
- The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
- The Queen Bee
- The Elves and the Shoemaker
- The Juniper-Tree
- The Turnip
- Clever Hans
- The Three Languages
- The Fox and the Cat
- The Four Clever Brothers
- Lily and the Lion
- The Fox and the Horse
- The Blue Light
- The Raven
- The Golden Goose
- The Water of Life
- The Twelve Huntsmen
- The King of the Golden Mountain
- Doctor Knowall
- The Seven Ravens
- The Wedding of Mrs Fox
- Second Story
- The Salad
- The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
- King Grisly-Beard
- Iron Hans
- Cat-Skin
- Snow-White and Rose-Red
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About the authors
1785–1863 · Romantic
Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) was born at Hanau, studied law at Marburg, and spent his life as a librarian, professor and scholar. With his brother Wilhelm he published the Kinder- und Hausmärchen from 1812 and began the Deutsches Wörterbuch. His Deutsche Grammatik set out the regular consonant shift now called Grimm’s Law, and he is counted a founder of Germanic philology. Dismissed from Göttingen in 1837 as one of the protesting “Göttingen Seven”, he ended his career in Berlin.
1786–1859 · Romantic
Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) was born at Hanau and worked all his life beside his elder brother Jacob, as librarian, professor and scholar. After the first edition he took the leading hand in the fairy tales, editing, smoothing and lengthening them through the revisions that ran to 1857 and giving the collection the tone by which it is known. He also published Die deutsche Heldensage (1829). He shared Jacob’s dismissal from Göttingen in 1837 and his later years in Berlin.
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